1825 in music

This article is about music-related events in 1825.

Events

March 21 - British première of Ludwig van Beethoven's Symphony No. 9 is presented by the Philharmonic Society of London.
May - Chopin performs for Tsar Alexander I in Warsaw.
Singer Maria Malibran makes her operatic debut as Rosina in The Barber of Seville at the King's Theatre in London.
September - In Vienna:
* Joseph Lanner and Johann Strauss I quarrel, and Strauss leaves Lanner's orchestra.
* Danish composer and pianist Friedrich Kuhlau, on an extended visit to the city, meets Beethoven.
November 29 - A touring opera company led by Manuel García performs Rossini's The Barber of Seville in New York City, the first opera to be sung in Italian in the Americas. The troupe includes his daughters Maria, who meets and hastily marries banker Francois Eugene Malibran, and Pauline.
December 10 - François-Adrien Boieldieu's opéra comique ''La dame blanche'' is premièred by the Opéra-Comique at the Théâtre Feydeau in Paris.

Classical music

Opera

Vincenzo Bellini – Adelson e Salvini
Gaetano Donizetti – Alahor in Granata
Franz Grillparzer - König Ottokars Glück und Ende ''
Giovanni Pacini – L'ultimo giorno di Pompei
Nicola Vaccai – ''Giulietta e Romeo''

Popular music

"Cherry Ripe" – w. Robert Herrick m. Charles Edward Horn
"Ich hatt' einen Kameraden" w. Ludwig Uhland m. Friedrich Silcher
"The Minstrel's Return'd From The War" – John Hill Hewitt

Births

January 23 – Louis Ehlert, composer and music critic
February 28 – Jean-Baptiste Arban, cornet virtuoso and conductor
March 12 – August Manns, conductor
June 24 – Jovan Sundečić, poet and lyricist
June 30 – Hervé, singer, conductor and composer of operettas
August 9 – Gaetano Antoniazzi, violin-maker
August 21 – Kate Loder, pianist and composer
August 22 – Julius Schulhoff, pianist and composer
August 24 – Charles Wels, pianist, organist, composer and music teacher
September 25 – Johann Strauss II, conductor and composer
December 19 – George Frederick Bristow, composer
date unknown – Balbina Steffenone, operatic soprano

Deaths

February 5 – Pierre Gaveaux, operatic tenor and composer
March 24 – Giovanni Domenico Perotti, composer
May 6 – Lady Anne Barnard, balladeer
May 7 – Antonio Salieri, composer
May 12 – Elias Mann
July 10 – Ludwig Fischer, operatic bass
July 29 – Micah Hawkins, composer and writer
August 3 – Ambrogio Minoja, composer
August 17 – Rayner Taylor, composer
August 23 – Amos Bull, composer
September 13 – Luigi Bassi, operatic baritone
November 1 – Rodrigo Ferreira da Costa, composer
November 12 – Joseph Reinagle, string and horn player, trumpeter and composer
November 19 – Jan Václav Voříšek, pianist, organist and composer
December 29 – Giuseppe Maria Gioacchino Cambini, composer
December 30 – Peter Gronland, composer
probable – Giuseppe Cambini, violinist and composer